Nepal Issues E-Passport For The First Time

As per the latest reports, Nepal has begun giving e-passports for the first time.

Foreign Minister Issues E-Passport To 102 Years Old Historian

Foreign Minister Narayan Khadka introduced the e-passport personalization at the Department of Passport and gave over the country’s very first e-visa to Satya Mohan Joshi, a 102-year-old historian, the office said in a press explanation on Wednesday.

E-passports will, at last, supplant the machine-intelligible international IDs, which were acquainted in 2010 with supplant the many years old manually written travel papers in Nepal.

“Just restricted e-passports will be given for a couple of days as the framework is as yet in the testing stage,” Sharad Raj Aran, representative for the Department of Passport, told Xinhua.

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The office intends to give e-passports in a full way inside three weeks, while District Administration Offices and different workplaces approved to give travel papers in different pieces of the nation will begin giving e-international IDs by December, and Nepali conciliatory missions abroad will give e-visas in January 2022, as indicated by the press explanation.

Aran said all workplaces would keep on issueing machine-intelligible international IDs close by e-passport papers until vital framework is prepared for e-visas as it were.

We plan to completely go into the e-visa system by January end,” he added.

Nepal has by and by raked up the border  issue in Pithoragarh locale by asserting three towns in the Kalapani region , raking up an issue that raised its head last year when Kathmandu distributed another guide showing India’s Lipulekh, Kalapani, and Limipiyadhura as a component of its region.

The move comes with regards to the country’s continuous enumeration.

Nebin Lal Shresth, chief general of Central Bureau of Statistics of Nepal which is answerable for the populace enumeration, said while addressing a main Nepalese day by day Kathamnadu Post on November 10 : “The three towns are under Nepal’s domain however has a presence of Indian military. Thus, there must be a proper arrangement at the public authority level so our group can go there for the populace registration.”

As per an official of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) what monitors the Indian side of the worldwide line Nepal has no case on the towns. “There is no doubt of permitting Nepalese specialists to go to the three towns for their enumeration as they are Indian towns.”